The Boy

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The construction of the palace complex “The Garden of Allah” lasted four years – between 1931 and 1935. Here symbols of Christianity and Islam are complementary and turn the place into a kind of temple under open skies. Maybe because the Queen was adherent to the Bah?’? teachings that preaches unity of religions and of all mankind. According to the Baha’i faith different religions are just “different stages in the eternal history and constant evolution of one religion, Divine and indivisible.”

Amazing music or perfect spiritual connection with Nature can make me be aware of and I feel God’s presence most deeply. A spectacular view, a garden of flowers, a gentle reddish sunset, watching a storm over the sea, give me a more clear picture of eternity and infinity than any religious ceremony.

Here I tried to recreate part of the divine beauty of the garden. While I was painting, a Romanian boy squatted next to me and started looking as if he knew what was going to happen. I put him in the picture with his faithful cat instead of a dog guard.